Her poetry, reviews, and criticisms caught the eye of publisher Horace Greeley who hired Fuller as a critic for the New York Tribune in 1844. He once said she was "the most remarkable, and in some respects, the greatest woman America has yet known."

"I accept the universe!" she celebrated. Writer Susan Cheever described the bold Fuller as "a Dorothy Parker woman in a Jane Austen world."

"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism," Fuller believed. "They are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."